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		<title>Sticks and stones may break my bones&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[but words will never hurt me.
Johnathan Derbyshire has an excellent article in the New York Sun regarding hate speech, actions and words and the difference between them all in his review of Jerome Neu&#8217;s book &#34;Sticks and Stones: The Philosophy of Insults&#34;.
One of the things he says really hit the nail on the head for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Aussie pols have bigger cajones than US pols</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow, the Aussies seem to get it. Their government officials don&#8217;t seem to be as frieghtened of being labeled &#8220;politically incorrect&#8221; as our own government officials. Personall, I&#8217;d just like to see someone running for office who wasn&#8217;t afraid to tell it like it is, warts and all.
A day after a group of mainstream Muslim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And it just keeps coming and coming&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Censorship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[*** CONTENT WARNINGTHE CONTENTS OF THIS RANT CONTAIN WORDS THAT ARE VULGAR AND OFFENSIVE. WHILE I USUALLY KEEP MY POSTS CLEAN, AND RATHER &#8216;PG&#8217; RATED, I FELT I COULD NOT RANT ABOUT THIS SUBJECT, AND MAINTAIN THAT COMPOSURE, SO I AM GIVING WARNING NOW. IF THE READER IS OFFENDED BY WORDS, PLEASE DO NOT READ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greensburg &#8211; full of hearty Midwesterners</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 15:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Photo of Greensburg aftermath stolen from the Associated Press (thanks in advance or not suing me!)
Greensburg, Kansas. For those who have had their heads in a hole, this was the town that, on Friday night, was wiped off the face of the earth by a 1.7 mile wide category EF-5 tornado with reported winds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Alec and David</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alec was an [unmentionable] and Hasselhoff is a drunk. So what?Alec called his daughter a pig. What is the big deal? I mean, it isn&#8217;t like she is a Muslim or something that would make the name-calling so terribly wrong. 
If there is any parent out there who says they have never lost their temper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At Least Our Lettuce Is Cheap</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 13:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was 1 May. Some may remember 1 May of 2006. That is the day where numerous immigrants, most of them Hispanic, and a great many of them who entered this country illegally, staged mass rallies, marches and demonstrations around the country demanding they be treated as legal citizens.
There are two ways to become a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It isn&#8217;t so shocking really</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are people so surprised? When kids and others do bad, morally reprehensible things, why is there such surprise? Is this not exactly where society has been heading? When we, as a society, remove any moral code, when we claim anything can be justified, people will do bad things.  There is nothing standing in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bunch of Plahooey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since a couple of weeks ago when Kathy Sierra was &#8220;cyber-bullied&#8221; into canceling an appearance, people have been debating on how to combat this type of activity. I even heard a PSA on the radio yesterday about cyber bullying.
Now Tim O&#8217;Reilly is creating what he calls a &#8220;Blogger&#8217;s Code of Conduct&#8220;.I&#8217;m not going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurants to put calorie count on menus?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigsibling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was watching the ABC morning show while walking my 1.5 mile treadmill walk at the gym this morning, and a segment came on that caught my interest.  I can&#8217;t be 100% certain what all was said because I have trouble reading whatever language those transcribers type in for the closed captions, but it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Warming;  The New Cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigsibling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some may remember, back in the mid to late 1970&#8217;s, it seemed that everything caused cancer.&#160; Milk had some cancer causing enzyme.&#160; Saccharine killed lab rats by the dozens and was eventually banned.&#160; Car fumes caused cancer.&#160; Too much sun caused cancer.&#160; Coca-Cola caused cancer.
Now, it is global warming.&#160; It seems that everywhere one turns [...]]]></description>
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